Test 6 · ★★ · Animal minds: clever crows, ravens, jays and parrots

«got a parrot for my birthday, he'll be gone in a few years» What could be wrong with that?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · What happens: get, go, be · To what, where: parrot · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 6 · ★★ of lesson 233 «Animal minds: clever crows, ravens, jays and parrots» of the biology course of Mova's primary school. The page gives the question's syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause, then the 4 options as the student saw them, each with its tree and pragmatics. Every text is parsed by Mova itself. How the student answered it, with the score of every option and why: the test at school.

The question

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	«	«	PUNCT	_	2 got	punct
2	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 parrot	det
4	parrot	parrot	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 got	obj
5	for	for	ADP	_	7 birthday	case
6	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 birthday	nmod:poss
7	birthday	birthday	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 parrot	nmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 gone	punct
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 gone	nsubj
10	'll	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 gone	aux
11	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	12 gone	aux:pass
12	gone	go	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 got	conj
13	in	in	ADP	_	16 years	case
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 years	det
15	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 years	amod
16	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 gone	obl
17	»	»	PUNCT	_	2 got	punct
18	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	21 wrong	nsubj
19	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	21 wrong	aux
20	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	21 wrong	cop
21	wrong	wrong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 got	parataxis
22	with	with	ADP	_	23 that	case
23	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	21 wrong	obl
24	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 got	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	get in a quote	past	a parrot		for my birthday	tree rules
2	go in a quote	future · passive	parrot	year		vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme
3	is	could			with that; wrong property	tree rules

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Some parrots live over 60 years

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	2 parrots	det
2	parrots	parrot	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 live	nsubj
3	live	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	over	over	ADP	_	6 years	case
5	60	60	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	6 years	nummod
6	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 live	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	live	present	some parrots				year		vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2

Parrots never grow old or get ill at all

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Parrots	parrot	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 grow	nsubj
2	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	3 grow	advmod
3	grow	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 grow	xcomp
5	or	or	CCONJ	_	6 get	cc
6	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 grow	conj
7	ill	ill	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 get	xcomp
8	at	at	ADP	_	9 all	case
9	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	7 ill	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not grow	present	Parrots					old property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	get	infinitive	Parrots not said here					ill property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer

Option 3

Parrots live only as long as goldfish

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Parrots	parrot	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 live	nsubj
2	live	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	only	only	ADV	_	5 long	advmod
4	as	as	ADV	_	5 long	advmod
5	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	2 live	advmod
6	as	as	ADP	_	7 goldfish	case
7	goldfish	goldfish	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 live	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	live	present	Parrots					as goldfish; long property	vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4

Right, parrots live about a year

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Right	right	INTJ	_	3 parrots	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Right	punct
3	parrots	parrot	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 live	nsubj
4	live	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	about	about	ADP	_	7 year	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 year	det
7	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 live	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	live	present	parrots				year		vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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